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Article: Kennedy upbeat day after seizure ; Receives calls from Senate colleagues
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 19, 2008
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When Barack Obama picked up the phone to speak with Edward M.
Kennedy yesterday, he expected his Senate colleague would be groggy
from medication following a seizure Saturday.
But Kennedy, 76, who remains in the hospital, surprised him with
his vigor and sense of humor, Obama said in a telephone interview
yesterday while campaigning in Portland, Ore.
"He sounded great," Obama recounted. "He sounded like the Ted
Kennedy we know and love. He joked a little bit about [how] this
happens when you get an old politician going out there on the road."
Kennedy spent yesterday watching baseball and movies from his
hospital room, as doctors tried to determine what caused the seizure
that prompted ...